How to Use exploitive in a Sentence

exploitive

adjective

• If this is allowed to become an exploitive model, well, that doesn’t work for my daughters.
  — Gabrielle Canon, USA TODAY, 9 Sep. 2019
• Yet also heartless, deeply amoral, selfish, exploitive, cold.
  — Pamela N. Danziger, Forbes, 28 Feb. 2021
• Just every kind of exploitive measure that there could be existed for these workers.
  — Taylor Wilson, USA TODAY, 16 Nov. 2022
• Productions were taken advantage of by exploitive pricing by some labs.
  — Selome Hailu, Variety, 29 Oct. 2021
• The business model itself is exploitive, Bhagrath said.
  — Leah Asmelash, CNN Money, 8 Apr. 2026
• While proponents argue that the system helps close budget gaps, opponents argue that the low wages are exploitive.
  — Mariel Padilla, BostonGlobe.com, 28 June 2019
• The scenes of violence against women are critical to the points of the shows, and not usually gratuitous or exploitive.
  — Matthew Gilbert, BostonGlobe.com, 12 July 2018
• Those regimes are ugly, exploitive, winner-takes-all, Darwinian forms of government.
  — Peter Georgescu, Forbes, 19 Apr. 2021
• While not excusing what began as exploitive relationships, Roberts shows how young men and women both crossed divides.
  — David James, Anchorage Daily News, 26 Mar. 2023
• Many firms in the booming climate crisis industry are run by the sort of exploitive capitalism progressives despise.
  — Greg Autry, Forbes, 7 Mar. 2023
• About 25 years ago, when Lehrer began painting these portraits, the work was regarded by some as niche, therapeutic at best, exploitive at worst.
  — Christopher Borrelli, chicagotribune.com, 24 Feb. 2021
• That encompasses the loving adult child, the exploitive neighbor and the local UPS driver.
  — Dallas News, 18 Oct. 2020
• As if on cue, one prominent Democratic senator has just served up a classic example of exploitive hyperbole.
  — Keith Kloor, Discover Magazine, 22 May 2013
• Washing whiteness out of the hierarchy of fashion wouldn’t just take adjustments to corporate leadership or less exploitive supply chains.
  — Amanda Mull, The Atlantic, 7 July 2020
• Try telling that to the million youngsters who watch YouTube anyway, while their parents play whack-a-mole, trying to keep their kids away from adult, exploitive, violent and scary content.
  — Jefferson Graham, USA TODAY, 28 Apr. 2018
• Much of the platform rewards and amplifies exploitive actions by staking creators’ revenue and clout on a handful of metrics—such as view counts and ad impressions—that are easily gamed.
  — Paris Martineau, WIRED, 6 June 2019
• Some feminists have viewed her body-positive art as exploitive in an old, essentializing way, failing to see the claim to power implicit in her erotic self-portraiture.
  — Holland Cotter, New York Times, 1 Feb. 2018
• The viral post, first published Friday, has elicited strong denials from major delivery apps that have been the subjects of past scrutiny for exploitive worker policies.
  — Lauren Wilson, NBC news, 7 Jan. 2026
• Rock performers, along with rappers and all sorts of other musicians, are supposed to be socially conscious artists rather than exploitive capitalists, so jacking up prices hurt their images.
  — Ryan Tate, WIRED, 1 July 2013
• The show became the standard bearer of a new brand of in-your-face television in the 1990s that audiences embraced and critics decried as exploitive and tasteless.
  — Sharon Coolidge, The Enquirer, 27 Apr. 2023
• Vagrancy laws were weaponized to force Black people into exploitive labor agreements and incentivized white surveillance of their movements and activities.
  — New York Times, 20 Jan. 2021
• New York City has already recognized this exploitive approach by food delivery platforms and taken steps to require tips to be disclosed to delivery workers.
  — Stephanie Vigil, Fortune, 9 Feb. 2023
• Filled with devastating detail, the document described an inherently inequitable and exploitive program, not only in terms of pay and treatment but also access.
  — New York Times, 6 July 2022
• People who shoplift and engage in other criminal activity are criminals, not merely victims of an unfair and exploitive economic system.
  — Chris Roemer, Baltimore Sun, 28 May 2026
• Both films depict the late career collapse of mercurial, exploitive, extreme narcissists who retreat into the isolation of their grotesquely excessive palaces.
  — Fortune, 24 Nov. 2020
• All of this is of course made possible by the bizarre, outdated, exploitive definition of amateurism that serves as the NCAA’s raison d’etre.
  — Dan Greene, SI.com, 26 Sep. 2017
• But in the then-emerging and exploitive Jamaican record business, Marley's authorship of o fewer than six smash hits in Jamaica netted him all of $200.
  — Tommy McArdle, Peoplemag, 19 Feb. 2024
• No doubt that world is written off now as racist and exploitive by the morally superior San Francisco of the woke, who 60 years later have created their own wasteland and called it civilization.
  — Victor Davis Hanson, National Review, 25 Aug. 2020
• But the precedent that BrainStorm will set by turning what should be an altruistic act into a money-making venture is extremely dangerous and potentially exploitive.
  — Adam Feuerstein, STAT, 20 June 2018
• The unfolding investigation is presented with a level of suspense that's involving and never exploitive (the fine editing is by John Farbrother).
  — Sheri Linden, The Hollywood Reporter, 27 Mar. 2020